International Talk Like A Pirate Day is finally here!! Me mateys, don’t ye forget, ye must talk like us ‘irates! It’s probably one of the only days you can do it without sounding like a total idiot minus Halloween. On that note, them scurvvy’s arr still ’round us! (*kwak*: scurvy is still here *kwak*)
Even though scurvy, an immense deficiency in vitamin C, is not common anymore (think of the Mayflower days), but it still exists. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, approximately 14% men and 10% woman have vitamin C deficiency. Fortunately, only a few progress to scurvy. In fact, between 1979 to 2005, only 57 people died of vitaminc C deficiency.
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